Cities, workers, and wages: A structural analysis of the urban wage premium
Cities, workers, and wages: A structural analysis of the urban wage premium
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-937x.2007.00428.x
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
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5.8
通讯作者：
Gould, E. D.
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作者：
Gould, E. D.
城市工人的工资高于农村地区。这种差距的出现可能是因为城市提高了工人的生产率，也可能是根据工人的能力和内生的职业选择历史非随机选择工人进入城市的结果。为了解开这些问题，本文估计了一个动态规划模型，它嵌入在城市或农村地区的职业选择随着时间的推移的模型中的选择。在控制了所有的选择和内隐因素之后，估计表明，在城市里，一个特定的工人在白领工作中确实赚得更多，但在蓝领工作中却不是。此外，城市工作经验被发现比农村工作经验更有价值，在农村地区的白领工作，但不适合蓝领工作。这些结果支持了城市使白领工人更有效率的解释，并表明工人可能会考虑搬到城市不仅在地点选择方面，而且作为一种形式的人力资本投资。
Workers earn higher wages in cities vs. rural areas. This gap could arise because cities make workers more productive, or it could be the result of a non-random selection of workers into cities based on their ability and their endogenous history of career choices. To untangle these issues, this paper estimates a dynamic programming model, which embeds the choice of residing in a city or rural area within a model of career choices over time. After controlling for all the sources of selection and endogeneity, the estimates indicate that a given worker does earn more in the city for white-collar work, but not for blue-collar work. In addition, city work experience is found to be worth more than rural work experience in the rural area for white-collar work, but not for blue-collar work. These results support the interpretation that cities make white-collar workers more productive and suggest that workers may consider moving to the city not only in terms of locational choice, but also as a form of human capital investment.